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whom. what does war do to people? how will identities societies and nations form and how will this historical development influence our future? to search for these answers, we visit soviet memorials and looked deep into the soul of ukraine. next, we speak with a ukranian director whose film today appears to be prophetic about them, civilians running from bombing in ukraine. this isn't yesterday's news, but a film from 2018, said don bass, eastern ukraine, where russian forces are supporting pro putin separate seattle to the other. the civilians are actors staging

a fake news massacre for russian tv. propaganda to justify the military encourage all over was committee ukraine, director of saudi las nita shows how for years russia planned it's war of aggression against ukraine. but the west clinic wasn't paying attention to my wish list goes go with b e o issues. can i go to lunch to get a worse oldest la spell a western hon. democracies were asleep when the new rush was formed. how little one was attacking in graz. chechnya again when it was attacking ga, crimea, dumbass and ukraine. and so what we're witnessing now in a way is the consequence of this sleep would beautiful of this lack of counter action on the part of the way she just li me. it is or does that there was not well for me high in your gilan washer. but a year. what to lose to flesh is by molly. oh yeah. jolly oh boy for years was miss. he says he tried to wake people on the plate

in this country in dunbar. he shows the absurd logic of d knots vacation use later by putting to justify the current war. a german journalist not trying to interview separatists is fiercely attack for his links to the great mac fascist enemy. what did he more still for shoes? look, just we pulled boom for she stumbled. oh countries tell their national stories and the corrupting influence of propaganda has always been core to lawson. it's, it's worked oh, the 2014 documentary, my don shows pro western protestors and keith, who else overthrow a pro russian ukranian government, russia to pick to these events as a far right qu plus,

nita says he tried to avoid propaganda using only long takes to capture the truth of the historic moment, ah e, that's feel approaches the yelp see. even the style of my film is in a way opposed to the methods of propaganda like the russian propaganda newsreel, which presented a very different picture of what was happening when you grab this video level. great. what last it's a saw was a new ukraine being built before his eyes. e a. d e z period. thank you. it was a moment of national wake up up for it's the moment when the nation is born up. when the nation begins to really construct statehood, if i know i becomes independent from the russian colonial vision to the 28th, a blue shirt i see is didn't did. oh,

my boy. yeah. from oklahoma bonnet was my dad works as a time capsule, capturing a moment in history. much of his work closely to says is a fight against what the director calls krohn aside, the killing of his stork memory. that i get ye or got dora, that i had when the tragedies that occurred, the traumas that afflicted a society are forgotten or not talked about in a society. guys, what happens is, sooner or later, these traumas come back with them. yeah, the way they re surface and basically come back to haunt the society. that is trying to forget about them in the group option. unhealed historic trauma is at the heart of lawson. it says documentary, barbara yard context, using archive footage with no commentary. he depicts events outside keith in 1941,

when nazi troops murdered more than 33000 ukranian jews and dumped them into the baba yar ravine. alicia to her, she knew by the yard that she, i made the film baba yar about the event of the massacre that throughout the soviet period was never talked about. it was kind of taboo. and in general, soviet propaganda did not even acknowledge the fact of the holocaust. and the subject was almost completely forgotten. ah, of course it goes without saying that the truth about this event should be told. and the memory of this event that i should live on allah, those lovely raised me, sheila, the film to pick scenes painful for ukrainians, showing locals celebrating the arrival of the nazis and standing by as they round up the jews. yeah, on bless nita's refusal to simplify history angered many in ukraine when after the

ukraine invasion, he refused to support a full boycott of russian cinema. ukrainian film academy kicked him out of court, ordered amira cheerfully. d got doria. i'm absolutely against the proposed total boycott of russian cultural figures and russian filmmakers who have actually been opposing the regime of actually been condemning the war. because if we do that, if we boycott them as well as everyone else, really in a way, we will be betraying them as the rates. ah less, nita says he's no profit and he's no politician. his films don't speak for ukraine, but try to depict the world and the war as he sees it all up in the earth because so i still get an equal. what, what does the an artist should do? what he does, bass, what he knows a video, and that is to make art a castle, made guernica we all we, artist is have to make films have to produce art that is narrating. and reflecting

upon the events which we are witnessing. we might inmate that the rare, ah, with that it's us loosely pressed, i guess. yeah, us and i mean, but it's, i guess you the war in ukraine has catapulted the world into a collective state of shock, including the arts, to demonstrate against the bloodshed russian artists give gun. yeah. you so you have a court fake blood over herself in front of the regional parliament and st. petersburg before swiftly being led away by police. 2 rebellion against russian dominance has a long tradition in the former soviet republics historian an expert on eastern europe, culture logo, talks about old alliances and new identities and ukraine. for the past 50 years, he has travelled across eastern europe and specialized in the history of the soviet

union and its successor state. she logo will be the 1st to admit that for the longest time, he too just saw ukraine as a part of the post soviet cultural fear. only after russia's attack on crimea, he began studying the country's uniqueness. prudence claim that ukraine has always belong to russia. schlagel writes off as pure propaganda a pretext to divert attention from his problems at home. if the man says i'm moon, it's sufficiently child to, i see a connection between the failing modernization or re constellation of a post soviet russia and a tendency to blame the outside world for every problem and contradiction within their godson. problem it would reduce crishna ost restricted ghost to turn in. i think that the intervention or aggression in crimea is zoom, wasn't attempt at rallying the people or society owned by using a small,

successful and triumphal orchestrated war of occupation. those 4 could d 0 if you didn't do that. it says um socialism. oh, according to sugar, put in his clueless about the young european identity that has emerged over the past 3 decades. and the cultural diversity thriving between living in the west and the don boss in the east. in the soviet days, however, ukraine was merely seen as a coal supplier and a bread basket. but even back then ukrainians had their own distinct culture dating back centuries. speed isn't in non senior hunger affect no later than in the 19th century. all the characteristics of modern nation building are in place. there comes such as the fight for a language of one's own speed and the formation of a literary language, given the struggle against russ. if occasion would be found the demand to forge a new state and i've been styled to be common with the student to come this time,

then comes with the collapse of empires industry that is after world war one. martin is very truth, but the autonomy had only lasted half a year when ukraine became entangled in the world war between stolen ism and naziism. as part of the soviet union, only in 1991 was the country able to step onto the world stage as a sovereign state. as a condition, ukrainians had to give up their nuclear weapons, a price, they were happy to pay by the officers orders over to him and grabbed us. there was a referendum following the breakup of the soviet union with an overwhelming majority in favor of independence for gordon. the honor was one and it's important to remember that don boss played a key role at the time root, even though that was the most soviet eyes part of ukraine's youth to toe do kind of using this often in moscow, the attitude was moscow. we can do this, us,

we can reestablish ourselves to stern ukraine's european orientation challenges putin's old imperial model of society. it's a clash universes, a younger global minded culture, opposing the regressive authoritarian russian regime. who didn't accuses the lensky of being a puppet of meal fashion. he in turn counters with instagram stories, shows himself as a family man tells of his jewish heritage and his grandfather's fight against the nazis. ah, if a couple of to do this, he embodies this civil pay. those encourage between i think he's great goes out to honda. is the attorney really is the antithesis of that bitter evil. dastardly and hateful man. you've talked down as people from his bunker hoop in the kremlin

bunker, him come off to lo time. if you could, the historian and eastern europe experts snuggle remains adamant in his support for ukraine's fight against pewter hooton's attack on ukraine is also possible via the confidence and silent support of bella roofs, the neighboring country that allows prudence troops to pass through. a documentary shows how close things came to changing history. minsk, in august 2020. then thousands of bell russians took to the streets and protest against their countries reeked presidential elections. these images were shot by bell russian director alexei pollo young. his documentary courage recounts those days when change was in the air in his homeland authoritarian leader, alexander lucas franco's days seemed numbered. but 2 years on beller roost,

his hopes for freedom have been dashed. luca franco, still rules with an iron fist. as putin bustle. it's a sneak, lucy, it's really awful thing, but the 1st realization was what a shame bel roost wasn't able to stop. putin in 2020 prisons are stopping with ice of vio knows, of changing a country, could have made a difference to victor happen. the russian invasion of ukraine makes l. e. x a puddle, yawns, film, grimly topical and highlights a bitter truth. the crushing of the protests in bella. ruth strengthened putin's role in the region. oh, the protagonists of pal yonce film are actors at the bell room. 3 theater and underground theatre immense that was critical of the ruling regime in 2020 palo. yon planned to create a portrait of these brave theatre makers who been harassed and threatened by the regime for years. oh, on the bottom of those,

the theatre folks dare to do down ah tampa with tim and get profit demon that they broached topics that back then and still are only spoken about in private to meet without peasant for then only whispered to trusted individual handlebar told us that they talked about the death penalty in a piece of theatre and food. they spoke about the abduction of politician hottest cooking, and they made theatre about torture in prisons, ensemble members, risk persecution, jail sentences, and being banned from performing for the, for the whole to hit and duncan, ah, the whole one umbrella i was i think it was like almost a flick, schiffer nick or english, the one that i would have an english guys company 54 years thought the thought i did that we had isn't the roof on the growing unrest turned the film about the theatre troops into a documentary of the protests and attribute to bel russians who demonstrated civil

courage was throwing william as full dimensions esteemed. haven't people who devoted to her and that a candidate in the presidential elections were tortured in prison in such a way that people outside and could hear the men's voices, sas, aloida allison could have been distant from. and few of them were kilten. i need a bench on give it off. i was gonna do one thing. yeah. i did. oh yeah. you can use dorothy to play with ali x a part of yarn, documented the brutal repression by the regime. these that my see, this massive violence give simply left people no room to keep quiet anymore. iraq and plots closets of people are vital to so hundreds of thousands of people said

that's enough from my childhood as fast. oh, for a while. it seemed like alexander lucas ankles more than a quarter century long rule might finally be over. i'm up to, i need get tired. so i need to look for a time. for a few seconds or minutes. there was hope things were changed, this infinity sir. you said started the film with the scene in front of parliament . ah, how a soldier except this flower is blooming them as there was much speculation about whether that scene was staged in that is of the smith 4th are always pre planned. i honestly couldn't say, but after 2 months, luca shank oh, brutally cracked out on the protests. the wes tried to exert pressure on the dictator using sanctions, but with tragic results. isolated and economically weakened. lucas shanker needed his close partner, rush more than ever. in the end, the big winner was vladimir putin. thus had him moved bliss allowed putin to back

the look of shanker regime into a corner and do with lucas sankoh. what he wanted in your thoughts, lack of us in the huge retaliatory measures, see what it was she had sanctions i served to make lucas shinkel a vessel of futon that the dentist. yes, look a shank, i rocephin that's also a consequence of the protesters. a fun, fun protest. in 2020 the films protagonists fled bella roofs and went to ukraine. now the war there has forced them to flee once again. this time to poland. ah. but i loiter these 3 people have learned how to start their lives over from scratch. toys as lebanon focuses on the camera. woman for this film still lives in bella, luce and mince cliff, and doesn't want to leave on jesus. i'm living in a historic time back. i want to be here and his thoughts are fired. i from here are the artists, like writers, also have there. and for me, that's courage to leave. and also about the stand behind these personal choices in

the desert presentation tried in for stay on the exit pol yonce film is a call to stand up to oppression and protest against brutal regimes. can we expect? seems like this will be repeated in russia. oh, a view of the door with a new mother here with us. since in beating ukraine, the russian president has often been portrayed as a fascist. at the same time, the russians were among those who liberated the world from the nazis. in 1945, a world view is disintegrating, especially from the perspective of east germany. the former sibling state of the soviet union. my studios

easy, almost hopefully defeat and i was in the wrong ally. he was invite with the russian poet yevgeny. you have to shanker published this verse in 1961 while the nuclear threat kept the world awake at night. ah, to day the fear is back. the world is in a collective state of shock over putin's invasion of ukraine, especially in east germany, where there had been much sympathy for russia and put in the world has turned upside down. the former ged propaganda phrase, to learn from the soviet union is to learn to triumph, has taken on a bitter aftertaste. thus, we kneeled felt when spock what's being ruined and by putin himself, that is no less than the central monument of soviet history. dep wouldn't in there, horrifically one victory. when is he the tragedy of the entire union, st. hoggard, the narrative of sacrifice?

the shifter will be known to now corrupt that into a patriotic, aggressive national religion across even that, that is a perversion of the power up to you. hook, the journalist and author kristen digman is a post war child who was born in 1953. he grew up with strong ties to big brother, soviet union, understanding russia was and remains a deep concern for him. it is a long shared history. over 40 years and many heads of state, the g d r and the soviet union portrayed themselves as sibling nations. yona 5th, whom you think to 1991 break up of the soviet union and prudence rise to power in russia has been an authoritarian and imperialistic presidential regime. the image of russia held by many former ged, our citizens no longer holds true to see ownership to little nice house. but the irony of the last 30 years is that the birthplace of socialism or communism has now

become hyper capitalist of openness and concepts and tea. in principle, the parameters of east and west are the same as in the great czarist empire. in this r, as at imperial state, that all from tush. when everything we've learned on top that this is communism fighting and capitalism. keegan, this is all just superficial and plastered on oh and in the end it always comes back to geo strategy. the bond between the former citizens of the g. d. r and the soviet union shaped several generations. affection for the occupier was institutionalized in the german soviet friendship. this was a mass organization, comprising millions of members, soviet art, films, and literature were standard subjects of the school curriculum. but despite all this, the often touted german soviet friendship was to a large extent not real and intimidated many. so did it outside could to men in the

g r years, the eternal drivel about the brotherly bonds with a country of linen simply became unbearable. harden that it was pure imposed ritual . we vulgar, stooped his cock. there were no real and individual and unregulated exchanges with the russians. dean wilson, before that, it wasn't until this superstructure was gone after the end of the g d r. that i could finally approach this history personally. my, with my own feelings focus shift, a neon. ah, there are 3500 soviet military cemeteries in germany. almost all are in the former east. the war memorial in the ship. what's a hide? a public park is the burial site for more than $13000.00 members of the red army. 100 bronze panels. tell us the battle of those who fell to take berlin. diesel off . take me a this place, remind me where i as a post war child in east germany. and i have come from yacoma when v him his i and

it reminds me to be grateful that i didn't have to grow up in hitler's great empire . oh fucks, most of when he gets to you when i come here now, it's not. i can't get this horrific situation in ukraine to day out of my thoughts and ish for mine and oh, about jesus. but this soviet memorial is not just a russian memorial and, but it's also a ukrainian at kirk is an a casa memorial with and georgian and arthur by johnny, by janice. ah, how should we feel today when we approach such russian war memorials? have they become emblems of dictators like putin, and must now be removed? as some historians are now publicly demanding. how might they affect the thousands of people who are now fleeing ukraine for germany? he could fight no 2 equals the smoke was, there is a great danger. there is always a great danger when generations pass and history finds its way into history book

once dusty shifter this, and that the history of soviet martyrdom will sink into ancient history. and that, that evil will say once it was, but it is no longer an v d horse and look at how the russians behave, they forfeited their right to be remembered. thus that's dangerous, thinking the saga of i think good and bad are not static on ye. those people then are not these people today mentioned those people died and sacrifice. you heard these people who are overrunning ukraine or criminal sign, ah liberation from hitler's fascism as the moral core and ethical legacy of soviet history. this shape the identity of many generations and east germany. putin has forever tarnished this legacy. they call it audio visual terrorism. their new music video about the uprising of the dead has become a viral hit. worldwide back

home, the russian band, ice peak has been blacklisted. but their songs are celebrated by can use that rebel against brutal violence by the state, and call for love and freedom. and with that, we say good bye for today. choose for you next week. a ah, with

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